Hi,

I have a/an xml file with certain config info in it. I want to parse the xml file, search for the tag that contains the attribute that matches what I entered as param1 on the command line, and then return the contents of ALL the act tags associated with the matched header.

I have been working on this for a bit and have come up with the following xml file and code.

Looking at the code I feel like it belongs in the Obfuscation section though. Is there a simpler way of returning an array..? or $var for each match? I have to do something with each var anyway so which ever is easiest to maintain and read.

The xml file - Test.xml: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- This is XML for the Header Mapping -->
<map>
    <header name="ABCstatus">
        <act>WTO</act>
    </header>
    <header name="ABCevent">
        <act>WTO</act>
        <act>Call</act>
    </header>
    <header name="DEF-Call">
        <act>Call</act>
    </header>
    <header name="Unknown">
        <act>WTO</act>
        <act>SMS</act>
        <act>NetSend</act>
    </header>
</map>

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The hmmm don't even know what to call this code:

#! perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my ($config, $head);

unless ($head = $ARGV[0]) {
    my $str = "Usage: $0 name";
    my $line = "-" x length($str);
    print "\n";
    print "$str\n";
    print "$line\n";
    print "\n";
    print "Setting Header as Unknown\n";
    $head = "Unknown";
}

my $file = "./Test.xml";
my $xs1 = XML::Simple->new();

unless ($config = $xs1->XMLin($file, forcearray => 1)) {
    print "Could NOT read $file IN:$!\n";
    exit();
}

my $hashrc = 0;

print "\n";
#So I can see the structure while testing
print Dumper($config);
print "\n=======================================================\n";
print "Header = $head\n";

foreach my $key (keys (%{$config->{header}})) {
    my $tempkey = $config->{header}->{$key}->{'name'} . $key;
    print "\nTesting \$tempkey = $tempkey\n";
    if ("$head" eq $config->{header}->{$key}->{'name'} . $key) {
        $hashrc = 1;
        foreach my $mapping (@{$config->{header}->{$head}->{act}}) {
            print "\$mapping = $mapping\n";
        }
        last;
    }
}

unless ($hashrc) {
    print "$head is not currently mapped\n";
}

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